Between The Frames

Han Jisung disappeared from Lee Minho's life at fourteen. No explanation. No goodbye. No second chance.

He told himself it was easier that way. Minho was going to become a snooker legend, and Jisung was just the boy who taught him the game he loved.

Eight years later, Minho is a professional snooker player and Jisung is a successful musician with a life built entirely somewhere else. He hasn't touched a cue since the day he left but he's streamed every single match.

A chance encounter in London puts them face-to-face for the first time in eight years. The past Jisung thought he'd buried turns out to still be exactly where he left it: waiting, patient, faded but not gone, like gold star stickers on an old cue case that was never replaced.

A slow-burn, childhood-best-friends-to-lovers story about grief, self-worth, and the people we convince ourselves we don't deserve to go back for.